Think Again

"Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on."

Frederic Chopin


from *The Harper Book of Quotations*
edited by Robert I. Fitzhenry

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When you use something, you no longer know it. To know it, you must leave it alone.

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'"But I don't see it," she continued sadly. "So, it's useless, isn't it? -and so cruel..." He was about to speak, but she went on: "I shall never understand it- never!"

He looked at her. "You will some day :you were made to feel everything----"

"I should have thought this was a case of not feeling----"

"On my part, you mean?" He faced her resolutely."Yes, it was to my shame. ..What I meant was that when you've lived a little longer, you'll see what complex blunderers we all are: how we're struck blind sometimes, and mad sometimes- and then, when our sight and our senses come back, how we have to set to work, and build up, little by little, bit by bit, the precious things we'd smashed to atoms without knowing it. LIfe's a perpetual piecing together of broken bits.'"

from *The Reef* by Edith Wharton (1912)